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GIS / Mapping Working Group

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) / Mapping working group is a network of CUNY students, faculty and staff who are interested in sharing methods and techniques, and finding support from others about ways GIS can be used to further research and teaching.

The GIS/Mapping working group is part of a GC Digital Initiatives program designed to create collaborative communities of Digital Fellows, CUNY-wide graduate students, staff, and faculty to meet regularly and share their areas of interest. The working groups provide a sustained, supportive environment to learn new skills, share familiar skills, and collaborate with both the Digital Fellows and the CUNY digital community.

If you are using Geographic Information Systems or other mapping technologies in your teaching and/or research, or if you are interested in mapping your data, or using GIS technology to analyze/visualize your data, we invite you to join the GIS/Mapping working group.

Peruse our mapping resource bank here: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/docs/gis-mapping-resources/

For the Spring 2024 semester, the GIS/Mapping working group will meet in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414, every other Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. Check out our event calendar for the specific meeting dates. Please stop by!

  • GIS / Mapping User Group Summer Bootcamp

    Posted by Rilquer Mascarenhas (he/him/his) on July 8, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    Hi, everyone.

    During this summer, the GIS / Mapping User Group will be hosting a remote GIS bootcamp, with weekly meetings on Friday (4-5pm, right after out RUG meeting), from July 15 to August 19. Our goal will be to cover from the basics concepts of GIS and move to more advanced skills we can develop using the software QGIS (https://qgis.org/). By the end, we expect everyone to be able to create maps in QGIS as well as manipulate spatial data for future analyses and visualization in order to tell their own research story. If you are interested, fill out this form by July 13th. Also, feel free to spread out the word. Our tentative schedule is

    Jul 15 – Intro to GIS

    Jul 22 – Manipulating and modifying spatial data I

    Aug 5 – Manipulating and modifying spatial data II

    Aug 12 – Extracting and analyzing spatial data

    Aug 19 – Data organization for GIS – mapping your analyses results

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